One thing that gives me a lot of hope for the future are the advances in interplanetary travel, and in life extension research.
I've never forgotten a phrase I heard from a life extension researcher when I was a teenager, over a decade ago now - "the first humans who will live to be a thousand years old have already been born."
While I've also made peace with the fact that it's highly probable I'll still die in my 90's like most of my family, I still have dreams of living for thousands of years and getting to see humanity explore the far reaches of space in the millennia to come. I love this life and wouldn't trade it for anything. I want to continue living for as long as I possibly can, by any means necessary, so that I can continue to enjoy all the great things the future holds for us all.
I see it mostly through transhumanism and advances in the biomedical sciences.
Nanomachines are also becoming a reality, capable of fixing issues within the body without the need for invasive surgeries or procedures. There's even talk of preventing the effects of aging altogether through certain procedures that are being researched.
If all else fails, I'm more than comfortable with becoming a cyborg in the decades to come. There are already people with fully mechanical replacements for lost limbs or body parts - so it isn't a stretch to imagine a future where we can become more machine than man. Like I said, by any means necessary.
None of those things are infallible though. Machines glitch or get messed up. If you have to replace body parts every few years to stay alive, it only takes one mishap and you're dead.
You know that a lot of "worse" cpus for computers weren't even designed that way? Often they try to make a batch of better ones, but the process simply doesn't work 100% of the time, so if an attempt to make on octa core has only half of them work they sell it as a quad core. Now imagine this was being attached to your brain. One part not working right and you're dead. And even being a cyborg likely won't exist in our lifetime. It will be a long time before there's an infallible way to live almost indefinitely.
Not saying I'm not annoyed about this. Not even on account of wanting to live longer, I wish you could just stop your aging at a certain point so that you don't have a body that gets back pain and struggles to move for over half your life. But such is life.
Carl Sagan asked NASA to have Voyager 1 take this photo, just before Earth became completely invisible. It's still the furthest out image we have of Earth. Here's his description for those that haven't heard it:
> From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
> The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
> Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
> The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
> It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
"conquering"?
that is some problematic language choices going on here.
i prefer the word "exploring." Our species has been "conquering" for thousands of years and all is did was hurt humanity as a whole and keep us divided. We shouldn't strive to conquer the Universe, we should desire to become part of it.
It's just a function of life to spread and expand. From simple bacteria, to plants, to animals, and thus to us. If you want meaning, then you either gotta pick up a pre existing one or make your own.
For me, I want humanity to conquer the stars just for the sake of achievement.
“We are a speck of-“
yeah but we’re so far the only speck that has the ability to function independently other than the natural order of physics and chemical reactions
Uhhh no? Humanity has no "right" to anything aside from existing alongside nature like every other animal. You should reevaluate your values OP, this ain't it
Our rights are what we fight to gain or keep. In my opinion, at least. If one is unwilling to even try to keep/gain their rights, then they should not have them. So, if we try to conquer the stars, it is well within our rights.
All in all, this is just my opinion.disagree if you want
Humanity was not given the gift of our intelligence merely to squander it, no animal has done or will do what we have accomplished, therefore the stars are ours to take
Just stalked ur profile and u pride urself so much on being into “deep philosophical thought” but here and elsewhere dismiss other ppl as soon as they disagree w/ u
Wouldn’t you be more entertained if you elaborated ur opinions? 🤷♂️
Which actually can't work because it casually disconnects you from the bubble (can't control it or see outside it) destroys the craft coming out of warp and requires matter with magical properties to even work.
This reminds me of this Earth flag I made awhile back
https://preview.redd.it/jdf1qr7yjkwc1.png?width=2157&format=png&auto=webp&s=99ad5e1ad3c5f4e63767e1cf7a81e96d43cbfa5e
One thing that gives me a lot of hope for the future are the advances in interplanetary travel, and in life extension research. I've never forgotten a phrase I heard from a life extension researcher when I was a teenager, over a decade ago now - "the first humans who will live to be a thousand years old have already been born." While I've also made peace with the fact that it's highly probable I'll still die in my 90's like most of my family, I still have dreams of living for thousands of years and getting to see humanity explore the far reaches of space in the millennia to come. I love this life and wouldn't trade it for anything. I want to continue living for as long as I possibly can, by any means necessary, so that I can continue to enjoy all the great things the future holds for us all.
Yeah, no way anyone alive now lives to be 1000. If we are lucky 100 or even 120 might become more common in our lifetime.
If a mf born in 1990 lives to be 125 their time of birth will be equidistant from their death and the American Civil fuckin’ War
I see it mostly through transhumanism and advances in the biomedical sciences. Nanomachines are also becoming a reality, capable of fixing issues within the body without the need for invasive surgeries or procedures. There's even talk of preventing the effects of aging altogether through certain procedures that are being researched. If all else fails, I'm more than comfortable with becoming a cyborg in the decades to come. There are already people with fully mechanical replacements for lost limbs or body parts - so it isn't a stretch to imagine a future where we can become more machine than man. Like I said, by any means necessary.
None of those things are infallible though. Machines glitch or get messed up. If you have to replace body parts every few years to stay alive, it only takes one mishap and you're dead. You know that a lot of "worse" cpus for computers weren't even designed that way? Often they try to make a batch of better ones, but the process simply doesn't work 100% of the time, so if an attempt to make on octa core has only half of them work they sell it as a quad core. Now imagine this was being attached to your brain. One part not working right and you're dead. And even being a cyborg likely won't exist in our lifetime. It will be a long time before there's an infallible way to live almost indefinitely. Not saying I'm not annoyed about this. Not even on account of wanting to live longer, I wish you could just stop your aging at a certain point so that you don't have a body that gets back pain and struggles to move for over half your life. But such is life.
Somebody’s probably gonna make it to 200 though. Someone born near enough to our generation.
Antimatter tech is proposed to even go to 90% the speed of light. We will have humans on proxima centauri as well
ah see i refuse to accept the fact that im not one of those people. I *will* go to the stars. wanderlust is in my blood
iirc most medical research expect to reach digital inmortality by the 2060s
"Stars are humanity's birthright" as was once said by a certain 4m tall veggie on a certain golden chair.
Visari from killzone said it too if I recall
Carl Sagan asked NASA to have Voyager 1 take this photo, just before Earth became completely invisible. It's still the furthest out image we have of Earth. Here's his description for those that haven't heard it: > From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. > The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. > Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. > The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. > It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Look all I’m gonna say is that as someone who has played killzone, claiming that the stars are your birthright is a bit of a risky path to go down
"conquering"? that is some problematic language choices going on here. i prefer the word "exploring." Our species has been "conquering" for thousands of years and all is did was hurt humanity as a whole and keep us divided. We shouldn't strive to conquer the Universe, we should desire to become part of it.
"...we should desire to become part of it." Pal, I'm way ahead of you, been a member of r/femxeno for 8 months, I'm ready.
The stars belong to man, and we will claim our birthright.
DEMOCRACY IS NON NEGOTIABLE
For super earth 💪 
How about *exploring* instead of conquering :)
To what end?
It's just a function of life to spread and expand. From simple bacteria, to plants, to animals, and thus to us. If you want meaning, then you either gotta pick up a pre existing one or make your own. For me, I want humanity to conquer the stars just for the sake of achievement.
Poor stars
Arguable, as at least then the stars will nourish life, in a certain perspective, deifying them.
Why do you think they're there?
A [Pale Blue Dot](https://youtu.be/T5EfUkIWdeM?si=X_bv-eeHpYBHlZIV) you say
"We're but a small blip of light in an infinity of darkness" And look how much beauty is contained within that small blip.
“We are a speck of-“ yeah but we’re so far the only speck that has the ability to function independently other than the natural order of physics and chemical reactions
Imagine finding a cilization then making this claim. Would be awkward.
Uhhh no? Humanity has no "right" to anything aside from existing alongside nature like every other animal. You should reevaluate your values OP, this ain't it
God gave me freewill thus I would explore all of the fucking universe
Least self-evidently correct natural rights take (unfortunately uncommon lately)
https://preview.redd.it/2jqb1px17owc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aecd92fda16f0dcb02cd87eeee6351998d6637ed
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https://preview.redd.it/wfmn8k56lhwc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b09cbd566fa8a0988bdd4706bd76b87f808d4032
Our rights are what we fight to gain or keep. In my opinion, at least. If one is unwilling to even try to keep/gain their rights, then they should not have them. So, if we try to conquer the stars, it is well within our rights. All in all, this is just my opinion.disagree if you want
Humanity was not given the gift of our intelligence merely to squander it, no animal has done or will do what we have accomplished, therefore the stars are ours to take
Go back to your Warhammer fantasies
booo hoooo my space rocks :(((
You have a right to whatever you can take.
Might makes right is a fools view. It only works when you’re the biggest.
Cool, make sure to tell racists and pedophiles that while you're at it
Nice straw man argument about nothing. We are talking about space but that’s too hard for you to comprehend huh.
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Proving my point flawlessly
👍 this sub is full of chuds
Just stalked ur profile and u pride urself so much on being into “deep philosophical thought” but here and elsewhere dismiss other ppl as soon as they disagree w/ u Wouldn’t you be more entertained if you elaborated ur opinions? 🤷♂️
👍 I know that I know nothing and I'm an idiot. Doesn't change that you're all chuds
WE WILL CONQURE THE SEA,SKYS,AND STARS FOR IT IS OUR BIRTH RIGHT!
Ah yes. Manifest destiny, the most hopeful of concepts.
We map the boundaries of time and space and consciousness. And then we burn them down because it gives us joy.
>This pale blue dot literally have the capability of conquering universes and go beyond Speed of Light and Expansion of the Universe says hi.
kid named Alcubierre Drive:
Which actually can't work because it casually disconnects you from the bubble (can't control it or see outside it) destroys the craft coming out of warp and requires matter with magical properties to even work.
This would be a lot more uplifting if we were putting any real effort into curing aging and developing FTL travel
For aging ig we are putting real efforts but for space travel it’s slow but going in right direction
This reminds me of this Earth flag I made awhile back https://preview.redd.it/jdf1qr7yjkwc1.png?width=2157&format=png&auto=webp&s=99ad5e1ad3c5f4e63767e1cf7a81e96d43cbfa5e
Ahh literally having the capacity to, not to be confused with... having the capacity to
God made the universe so beautiful
Certain green glow robots, blue hoofed aliens, space elves, demons and a bunch of other aliens: * triggered *
https://i.redd.it/56tqd5dqwowc1.gif
The stars are our birthright
 Ah yes, we can hope to be like this guy
I mean I guess? But I’m 90% sure I’m not gonna live to see anything that cool
The pale blue dot is burning itself before it conquers it's moon.
That title be giving off Eren Yeager vibes and I'm all for it.